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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Saturday Sweets! Flip Flop Cake

Happy Saturday!

Today I am showing a cake I made for my friend's mom's 50th Birthday.

They were just having a small get-together in a big city near us - they stayed in a hotel and had a little ladies night to celebrate. She told me that she likes teal and that I could do whatever I wanted with the design of the cake. I know her mom loves to travel to warm beaches, so I decided to throw some fondant flip flops on top. It's hard to tell from this photo (most of my cake photos are taken with my old camera that wasn't the best camera ever made...) but the straps on the flip flops had black glittery sparkles on them.

Interesting Tid Bit

The centers of the white flowers have little silver balls that are called "silver dragees." I love using them because they look cool and growing up, my family always put them on Christmas cookies (and ate them). If you are familiar with them, you may notice that they are a little hard to find. They have been around for many, many years and in the early 20th Century, they may have contained small amounts of mercury; however, they don't anymore. Although they are made with sugar, the Food and Drug Administration has now deemed them inedible because of the metallic finish. They are required to include a notice that they are for "decorative purposes only." These dragees can no longer be sold in the State of California as a result of a lawsuit in 2003. Other countries do classify them as food items. When I put them on my cakes, I do advise everyone that they are not considered a food item, but so many people have eaten them at certain times in their lives, that eat them anyway.

And for the actual cake...this is a white cake with one layer of raspberry filling and one layer of cream cheese filling. It's covered in buttercream and all of the accents are made with fondant.